The style "The Honourable" is not acquired through membership of either the House of Representatives or the Senate (see Parliament of Australia). A member or senator may have the style if they have acquired it separately, e.g. by being a current or former minister. During proceedings within the chambers, forms such as "The honourable Member for ...", "The honourable the Leader of the Opposition", or "My honourable colleague" are used. This is a merely a parliamentary courtesy and does not imply any right to the style.
Traditionally, members of the legislative councils of the states were also styled The Honourable. This practice is still followed in New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia and Tasmania. In Victoria, the practice was abolished in 2003.
In addition, some people are entitled to the style while in office only:
Derivatives include:
It is usual for speakers of the House of Commons to be made privy councillors, in which case they keep the style for life, and provincial premiers and federal opposition leaders are sometimes also made privy councillors.
Members of the Canadian House of Commons and of provincial legislatures refer to each other as "honourable members" (or ) but are not entitled to have The Honourable as a prefix in front of their name.
The Governor General of Canada, the Prime Minister of Canada, the Chief Justice of Canada and certain other eminent persons are entitled to the style The Right Honourable for life (or in French).
New Zealand office holders who are "Honourable" ex-officio are usually personally granted the style for life as a courtesy when they vacate the office.
Some persons are entitled to the prefix by virtue of their offices. Rules exist that allow certain individuals to keep the prefix The Honourable even after retirement.
Many corporate entities are also entitled to the style, for example:
In the British House of Commons, as in other lower houses of Parliament and other legislatures, members refer to each other as honourable members etc. out of courtesy, despite the fact that they are not entitled to the style in writing. When members are barristers they will instead be referred to as the learned member with serving members of the military of the rank of major and above (formerly less of a rarity than today) styled the gallant member.
Where a person is entitled to the prefix The Right Honourable they will use this higher style instead of The Honourable.
Federal usage dictated by the chief of protocol, an appointed official in the United States Department of State, dictates that the following other officials receive the title:
Federal usage also notes that the style of Honorable is used for life. This would include persons convicted of crimes after leaving office, resigned under a cloud or who were removed from office through impeachment or recall.
In the Commonwealth of Kentucky, commissioned Kentucky colonels are considered members of the governor's staff and his honorary aides-de-camp, and as such are entitled to the style of Honorable as indicated on their commission certificates. The commission and letters patent granted by the governor and secretary of state bestowing the title of Kentucky colonel refers to the honoree as "Honorable First Name Last Name." However, this style is rarely used with most Kentucky colonels preferring to be referred to and addressed as colonel.
The style The Honorable is used on envelopes when referring to an individual in the third person. It generally is not used with an additional style or title, such as Dr. or The Reverend, though it can be used with post-nominal letters (e.g., The Hon. John H. Sununu, Ph.D).
A spouse of someone with the style of The Honorable receives no additional style, unless personally entitled to the style. The wife of former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, Michele Ridge, does not receive the style, even though her husband has held various offices that would grant the style for life under all usages. The wife of former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, Marjorie Rendell, is a federal judge, appointed prior to Rendell's election as governor, and is styled The Honorable in her own right.
Aside from written form of The Honorable, the spoken form of address, Your Honor is used when addressing judges, justices and magistrates as well as some mayors. In third person, Your Honor becomes His/Her Honor.
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